You know, I got to thinking about Bill O’Reilly’s denunciations of the evil, all-powerful bloggers, and I decided to check out some of them for myself.
My first stop was Blogs For Bush.com. What did I learn there? What is the blog buzz? And are these bloggers as depraved as what Bill claims?
I’ll report and you decide.
The Sort of Man President Bush Is, By Mark Noonan
He really is beyond the reach or understanding of most of his critics – and that goes for both conservative and leftwing critics. They don’t get the man – and I don’t think they ever will.
Yea, for as the prophets have told us, while George Bush is “A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.”
And while George Bush is far beyond our understanding as we are to the ants, Mr. Noonan does cite an example to help us understand his greatness from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Beth Karlson, who lost her son to the Iraq war, wanted something when she met Thursday with President Bush. Answers.
For well over a year, the 63-year-old woman – “just a little bumpkin from Wisconsin,” she says – has repeatedly sought information from the Army about the 2003 death of her son, Army Staff Sgt. Warren S. Hansen.
He and 16 soldiers from the 101st Airborne were killed when two Blackhawk helicopters collided above Mosul on Nov. 15, 2003. It was the single deadliest episode in the war for U.S. forces up until then.
Karlson learned Wednesday from the White House that she and her husband were invited to meet with Bush on Thursday during his Green Bay visit. Away from the public eye, he met with five families who have lost loves ones in the war, a White House aide said.
Karlson, a retired school “lunch lady” from Clintonville, has been frustrated by multiple attempts to obtain the official Army report on the crash. So she broached the subject with Bush.
“He seemed very interested,” the mother said. The president told her that an aide who was on hand and taking notes would look into the matter Friday.
And THAT is the kind of man that President Bush is – the kind who says that an aide will look into things.
But wait, there’s more!
Karlson and her husband, Jim, met with Bush for 20 to 30 minutes. It began with a “great big bear hug” from Bush. He gave her a presidential coin. He signed a scrapbook she’s amassed about her firstborn son. It was the only time he didn’t hold her hand during the meeting.
Bush is a hand-holding, bear-hugging, personal-space-invading kind of man! He’s the kind of man who gives presidential coins to grieving families in order to show them how much he sympathizes with their loss!
“He said, ‘I just love the military.
As long as he doesn’t have to serve in it, of course
‘There’s just something about military families.’
All the mourning for dead loved ones, maybe?
And he thanked us for raising the type of child we did – that’s part of what he wrote in the scrapbook,” Karlson said.
“Dear Mrs. Karlson, thanks for raising a child who would serve his country in a foreign war, so that my children don’t have to.”
But here’s Mark’s assessment of the story:
This is just typical President Bush – going out of his way to meet the families of the fallen, and doing it outside the public eye because, well, its not a public matter – it is the President of the United States and the man George W. Bush offering his respect to the family of the fallen.
This isn’t for sound bites; this isn’t for a “money shot” picture on the nightly news…this is just the act of a decent, caring man who understands that his decisions have stern consequences which he bears full moral responsibility for.
So, per Mark, President Bush bears full moral responsible for the deaths of over 2600 American service men and women, and also for an untold number of Iraqi casualities. And yet, Mr. Bush seems strangely untroubled by all this. So, I guess the kind of man he is (per Mark), is a sociopath.
Yeah, I can see why Bill O’Reilly finds the blogs so troubling.